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VW's Junior Passat TDI officially in for Darpa Urban Challenge

Click the photo for a high res gallery of Junior in preliminary evaluation Before the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge this November, the organizers decided to actually test the prospective competitors to make sure they could actually function as required to complete the course. Like the original Grand Challenge Event in 2004 and 2005 competitors have to build a fully autonomous vehicle that can navigate itself around an undisclosed course. Volkswagen and Stanford University won the 2005 event with an autonomous Touareg and they have now ... Read more →

Another team set to use Passat TDi for DARPA Urban Challenge Sam Abuelsamid

We told you previously about DARPA Urban Challenge and the Volkswagen Passat from defending DARPA Grand Challenge winners the Stanford Racing Team. Now there is a second team entering with a Passat ...

Stanford Racing Team building autonomous Passat TDi with DSG gearbox Sam Abuelsamid

The first DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge event in 2004 was a complete disaster without a single one of the autonomous vehicle competitors managing to complete the ...

VW's Junior Passat TDI officially in for Darpa Urban Challenge 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click the photo for a high res gallery of Junior in preliminary evaluation Before the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge this November, the organizers decided to actually test the prospective competitors to make sure they could actually function as required to complete the course. Like the ...

Another team set to use Passat TDi for DARPA Urban Challenge 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We told you previously about DARPA Urban Challenge and the Volkswagen Passat from defending DARPA Grand Challenge winners the Stanford Racing Team. Now there is a second team entering with a Passat TDi wagon, this time from Germany in the form of Team-LUX. The Hamburg based team appears to be ...

Stanford Racing Team building autonomous Passat TDi with DSG gearbox 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The first DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge event in 2004 was a complete disaster without a single one of the autonomous vehicle competitors managing to complete the 142 mile desert course. The farthest anyone got was about seven miles, and most of the vehicles died ...


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